President Barack Obama signed an agriculture bill worth more than $950 billion Friday, saying the rare product of cooperation in Washington was an example of how the gridlocked US political capital should work. Obama travelled to Michigan to highlight the...
The United States clinched the first gold medal of the Winter Olympics on Saturday when Sage Kotsenburg won the snowboard men's slopestyle. Norwegian Staale Sandbech, 20, won the silver medal followed by Canadian Mark McMorris, 20, who walked away with...
NEW DELHI: India’s Maruti Suzuki said Saturday it had halted production of its iconic first small car, the Maruti 800, which revolutionised road transport for millions of Indians. The boxy, four-seater hatchback—the first car ever owned by many Indian middle...
The 2014 Winter Olympics officially began with an extravagant opening ceremony in Sochi, Russia, on Friday and even NASA has embraced the spirit of the games with striking new satellite views of Olympic sites from orbit. The newly released photos...
The government is actively considering enacting a law to force the private medical colleges to fulfill their conditions in a bid to ensure quality medical education. Health Minister Mohammad Nasim, who after assuming office talking tough against errant doctors, made...
Executive Director of the Trade and Export Promotion Centre of Nepal, Iswar Prasad Ghirmi on Saturday said Nepal wants to enhance bilateral trade with Bangladesh. Iswar Prasad conveyed the interest during a meeting with Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry...
President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of World Vision International (WVI), a global humanitarian organisation, Kevin J Jenkins is in city on a four-day tour. Jenkins, in his first visit here, is mainly focusing on interaction with community people including...
A local Jubo Dal leader was shot dead by some miscreants at Muradnagar in Sitakundu upazila of Chittagong on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Nizamul Karim Sajeeb, 31, a member of Muradnagar union unit Jubo Dal and son...
Claiming that the government’s public support has hit the zero level, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the current ‘illegal’ regime will be ousted through a mass movement. He also said the present government came to power...
FENI: Prime Minister’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Dr Gowher Rizvi said the temporary boundary pillars installed on the 67-year-old disputed Muhuri Char between Bangladesh and India will remain unchanged. He said the permanent boundary pillars, demarcating the long-disputed Char in Parshuram...
KURIGRAM: Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif Saturday said that dialogue can take place with BNP if it recognises the government as legal. “BNP has to take decision on the legitimacy of the incumbent government. Dialogue can take place...
Amid the charred ruins, Abdul Jalil, a teacher of a Madrasa in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar, sits with a bundle of burnt currency notes. He has been living with his family that includes three daughters at Madhubagh slum at Mogbazar for...
Justifying her party’s decision of joining the 10th parliamentary elections, opposition leader Raushan Ershad said in Mymensingh on Saturday that Jatiya Party (JP) took part in the polls to help protect the constitution and continue the democratic process. “We’ve played...
The employees of BRAC Bank Limited has organised a marathon titled ‘BRAC Bank DAUR 2014 – Kolyaner Pothochola’ to raise fund for humanity. Benazir Ahmed, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner, was present as the chief guest at the annual marathon...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Saturday named Mashrafe Bin Mortaza as Bangladesh captain for the two-match Twenty20 International series against Sri Lanka to be held at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong on February 12 and 14. The BCB selected...
Armed robbers looted some 500 talas of gold ornaments from a jewellery shop in the district town on Saturday. Witnesses said a band of 15-20 masked robbers stormed into ‘Abedin Jewelers’ on Khaja Ahmed Road adjacent to the Press Club...
A mobile court in Jessore has sentenced a man to one year imprisonment for selling contraband items in Sharsha upazila of the western district bordering India. The convict was identified as Shahidul Gazi, 35, son of late Rajob Gazi of...
With double strike by Mahmudullah, Bangladesh claimed two early wickets as visiting Sri Lankan cricketers started their batting in the second innings in the second Test at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong on Friday. The Lankan ‘Lions’ reached 68...
One day after discovering one of the biggest gold hauls in the country, custom officials at Hazrat Shah Amanat (RA) International Airport in Chittagong seized six gold bars weighing 700 grams on Friday morning. Parvez Al Zaman, Assistant Commissioner (Customs)...
BNP’s National Standing Committee has demanded that the government hand over power to a non-party dispensation to facilitate the prompt holding of a fresh national election. Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said in a media release Friday that the...
A truck driver died as his vehicle veered into a roadside ditch in Munshiganj district on Friday, police said. The victim is yet to be identified. Bhaber Char police outpost in-charge Saiful Islam said the driver’s assistant was injured in...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will tour Rajshahi on Saturday to inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of a number of development projects and exchange views with the people injured in pre- and post-poll violence unleashed by BNP-Jamaat-Shibir men at different...
At least four people were killed and three others injured in a fatal road accident in Kapasia upazila of Gazipur district on Thursday night. Three of the deceased were identified as Parven Akter, 35, wife of Rafiqul Islam, Faruque Mia,...
Global food prices fell in January, led by declines in the costs of sugar, vegetable oils, and cereals, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday, adding that robust inventories should contain prices in coming months. The Food and Agriculture...
At least 30 fishermen were injured in an attack by pirates in Meghna River in Tajumuddin upazila in Bhola district on Thursday night. Locals said the pirates swooped on the fishermen’s trawlers when some fishermen were catching fish with seven...
A West Bengal-based human rights group has demanded probe into the recent “custodial death” of a 26-year-old Bangladeshi convict at Behrampore Central Correctional Home in state’s Murshidabad district. Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM) in a letter to the National Human...
A central leader of Krishak League, a pro-Awami League organisation, was killed as a bus hit his motorcycle in Tongi of Gazipur district on Friday. The deceased was identified as Alam Palwan, a member of central committee of Krishak League....
Bangladesh’s economy is doing better than neighbouring India, Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu has claimed. He said employees in Bangladesh were not axed in the face of a global recession unlike in the US, world’s biggest economy. “We are known...
The menace of toxic preservatives, particularly formalin, in fresh fruits, vegetables, fishes that are sold in the capital kitchen markets remains almost unchanged as the traders resort to innovative ways to dodge the anti-formalin monitoring drives launched jointly by the...
Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan Mohamed on Friday congratulated Sheikh Hasina on her re-election as Prime Minister of Bangladesh. In a message to Sheikh Hasina, Ali Zeidan expressed his pride in the great bonds of friendship and cooperation which combines...
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